"Oh, which college?" he asked. "I'm at Columbia, it'd be nice to see a friendly face at school once in a while."

"Thanks," he said, grinning and taking another drink. "It's nice to have it back, I can't lie."

He wondered, for a moment, if his mother knew, and how she was taking it. But Persephone was both a grown-up and a married woman, as far as he was concerned, she could do what she liked. He wanted his sister to be happy.

"Then I'm happy for you," he said, and he meant it. "I'll have to at least call her and say hello, I haven't talked to her since I arrived."